Statutory Instruments

1996 No. 2860

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Royal Surrey County and St. Luke's Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Change of Name) Order 1996

Made

14th November 1996

Coming into force

1st April 1997

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of powers conferred on him by section 126(3) and (4) of the National Health Service Act 1977(1) and section 5(1) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990(2) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, having completed consultation with the Royal Surrey County and St. Luke's Hospitals National Health Service Trust(3), hereby makes the following Order:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.-(1) This Order may be cited as the Royal Surrey County and St. Luke's Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Change of Name) Order 1996 and shall come into force on 1st April 1997.

(2) In this Order unless the context otherwise requires-

"the Order" means the Royal Surrey County and St. Luke's Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1990(4);

"the trust" means the National Health Service trust established by the Order.

Change of name of NHS trust

2. The trust shall be called the Royal Surrey County Hospital National Health Service Trust instead of the Royal Surrey County and St. Luke's Hospitals National Health Service Trust, and accordingly in article 1 of the Order in the definition of "the trust", and in article 2 of the Order, for the words "and St. Luke's Hospitals" there shall be substituted the word "Hospital".

Transitional provisions

3. The change of name under this Order shall not-

(a)affect any right or obligation of any person; or

(b)be taken as invalidating any instrument (whether made before, on or after the day on which this Order comes into force) which refers to the trust by its previous name;

and all instruments and other documents which refer to the trust under its previous name shall be construed as referring to it under its new name.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

John Horam

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department of Health

14th November 1996

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order changes the name of an NHS trust established by Order under Part I of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 from the Royal Surrey County and St. Luke's Hospitals National Health Service Trust to the Royal Surrey County Hospital National Health Service Trust, and makes consequential amendments to that Order and transitional provisions.

(1)

1977 c. 49; section 126(3) and (4) was amended by section 65(2) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) ("the 1990 Act").

(2)

1990 c. 19; section 5 was amended by paragraph 69 of Schedule 1 to the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17).

(3)

See section 5(2) of the 1990 Act and S.I. 1996/653, regulation 2(3).

(4)

S.I. 1990/2442.